Heart of Darkness: Character StudiesBloomsbury Academic, 2008 M05 27 - 110 pages Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) is one of the most important literary works of the early twentieth century. It has provoked much critical debate, on issues such as fin de siècle doubt and pessimism, European colonialism, racism, and misogyny. Engaging with the novel's characters is crucial to understanding its complexity and its criticalhistory. |
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... remain partially dark . THE PRIMARY NARRATOR The first ' character ' we meet is Nellie , a ' cruising yawl ' who ' swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails , and was at rest ' ( p . 15 ) . We are told this 7 On the Nellie.
... Nellie : he is recounting a scene from his past . We do not know why at this point , and later can only conjecture ( in the same way that we can only conjecture why Marlow tells his story ; discussed later in this chapter ) . We also do ...
... Nellie is : on the Thames estuary between Gravesend and the sea , probably near Stanford le Hope , Essex.4 The movement of the narrator's view can also be rather confusing : he looks approximately east to the nearby but extending ' sea ...